How many people downvoted because Grr I Disagree and How Dare They Question EY, and how many because they didn’t like how the poster leaped from “I haven’t seen any reason to think this” to “they must be automatically assuming this”? This wasn’t so much asking for evidence as… assuming there was none. That tends to annoy people, and I think it makes sense on a productive-discourse level to discourage such posts. On a teach-the-newcomer-and-don’t-drive-them-out-for-not-being-perfectly-rational-yet level, however, I think you have a point.
How many people downvoted because Grr I Disagree and How Dare They Question EY, and how many because they didn’t like how the poster leaped from “I haven’t seen any reason to think this” to “they must be automatically assuming this”? This wasn’t so much asking for evidence as… assuming there was none. That tends to annoy people, and I think it makes sense on a productive-discourse level to discourage such posts. On a teach-the-newcomer-and-don’t-drive-them-out-for-not-being-perfectly-rational-yet level, however, I think you have a point.